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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Removing Lines that Don't Match a Pattern

Following up on a previous tip, you can also use the "g" and "d" commands to remove lines in your current buffer that don't match a specific pattern. The following example would remove all lines that don't match "www.example.com".
:g!/www\.example\.com/d
Posted by Travis Whitton at 7:48 AM 1 comment:
Labels: ex, expression, pattern, regular, vim
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